supply. that might have something to do with the fact that those in that industry have given him millions of dollars since the february freeze including kelsey warren whose company made 2. 4 billion dollars in february off the suffering of our fellow texans, and road greg abbott of 1 million dollar campaign contribution check. that would explain the other wise inexplicably as to why we haven t fixed the grid as we head into another winter. this is slightly we d see, but bear with me here. my understanding is that some of the recommendations around winterization for texas would be one of the sort of costly insurance. you have to winterize at a certain amount of capital cause so that your insulated ensured out into the worst kind of events. and generally, the industry doesn t want to do that because we make them spend a lot of money to upgrade the grid. whatever they spend, and i ve seen estimates that it s one to 3% of their operating
and at the same time, we are going to give you humanitarian aid. well, we are creating a bigger and bigger humanitarian disaster by not allowing banking to function and not allowing the economy to be back on its feet, what s afghans need more than anything. they need food and aid. but they also need jobs. they need an economy. they need to be able to import food. they need to be able to pay their teachers, pay their health care workers. all of the normal functions that you expect to happen in a country are now crippled. so, who will end up paying for this in the end? of course, it is going to be the american taxpayer. there is a un appeal out for 4.4 billion dollars and it is only 9% funded. the u.s. is the largest donor to that appeal. anytime there is a problem in afghanistan, we know that the united states ends up having to fix it and pay for it. well, just to be clear here, the chain of causality here i am reading in on this today and talking to some folks. those reserves sitti
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we need to cut off russia from the source of income and we are doing that, but part of this is the oligarchs. putin has to run himself by folks who will not say no to him. we have to start making it so painful, not just for not just for him but for the people around him to get him the push people to stop this doubling down and tripling down that he s doing. we have to first and foremost cut russia from the funds that they need in order to wage this war. but then we have to hurt the people around him, the ones who are empowering him to continue to pursue this war. and it s just been absolutely horrific. you re watching this footage and they are committing war crimes in ukraine and they certainly need to do everything that we can to stop it. and in fact, i m about to hit to the floor here, the senate floor, and vote for a bill that includes 14 billion dollars in aid to ukraine. all right, there s a large
supporting us. we understand the united states had their own problems, and 14 billion dollars of aid to ukraine still matter a lot in the eye to states. but here we will go a long way, it will alleviate suffering, and help us fight supposedly one of the biggest armies in the world. of course, president zelenskyy s right that the u. s. is the only country that can lead the free world, and stop the global rules that were written down after world war ii from changing. after world war ii veteran thought that changing borders by force or something of the past, now this man and kremlin tries to change at. where the front lines of this, this is not only a fight about ukraine this is a fight about we do ask the american people and for president biden to lead the fight.